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© Andrew Ruff / Alamy Stock Photo Credits include Dad's Army, Ever Decreasing Circles and Keeping Up Appearances
05/06/2024 … Veteran TV comedy producer and director Harold Snoad has died at the age of 88.
Guests to include Celya AB, Morgan Rees and Christopher MacArthur-Boyd
05/06/2024 … Josh Jones is to host a ‘gossip podcast’ about history.
...the same age the real Monarch reached
05/06/2024 … Jeannette Charles, who appeared as the Queen in numerous comedy shows, has died at the age of 96 – the same age the late Monarch reached.
Richard Gadd collects the Gotham accolade in New York
05/06/2024 … Baby Reindeer has won its first award – scooping the breakthrough limited series at the Gotham TV Awards in New York last night.
UK dates after Edinburgh Fringe premiere
04/06/2024 … Sketch troupe Tarot are to go on a UK tour after their Edinburgh Fringe run.
© David Dixon / Geograph/CC BY-SA 2.0 Taxi crashed into the Bolton sculpture
04/06/2024 … Victoria Wood’s statue has been toppled after a taxi crashed into it.
Revenge for comments Jaime Caravaca made about baby son
04/06/2024 … This is the shocking moment a far-right activist attacked a comedian on stage, as a social media row spilled over into real life.
Comic's story of uprooting from London to rural France
04/06/2024 … Stand-up Ian Moore’s memoirs about giving up London life for the serenity of the Loire Valley are being reissued.
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